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After the Windows 10 November Update you can now ask Windows to manage your default printer and it will always default top the last printer used. read more Continue reading...

Windows 10 is magnificent. That said it appears to me as if nr 10 was created solely from an American perspective? With nr 8 I could go to my internet settings and mostly negate any unwanted advertisements. Being online with nr 10 I use an inordinate amount of data, no matter how I tweak my...

Hello guys. I installed Windows 10 a few weeks ago and generally paid no attention to it as I was busy playing videogames. I checked to see what I could do just yesterday and I am pretty frustrated as when I click on Search the web and Windows, nothing shows us and it's just that the default...

Dear Guys, I try to use BACKUP that comes with Windows 10. The BACKUP works well but i have some difficulties using the customization. - When i want to exclude folders from Backup, sometimes it works (the folder that i excluded appear in the list), and sometime does not appear. Question: What...

Casting your device's screen to a remote display is now part of the Connect setting in Windows 10. read more Continue reading...

Windows Media Center users from Windows 7 and 8.1 can get a free Windows 10 DVD Player app for their upgrade to Windows 10 if they have a qualifying source system. read more Continue reading...

Microsoft put in a feature that made the mouse get stuck on the corners between monitors in windows 8.1 and I could remove it in 8.1 by changing the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MouseCornerClipLength value from 6 to 0. My mouse was getting stuck in Windows 10 and I went...

I have a problem in that Windows 10 is not working for me, and I am trying to roll back to Windows 7. One of the difficulties is a non functioning Start Menu. So how to I get to Settings and then Update and Security etc to begin the roll back process to Windows 7?

A few of the old-style Control Panel apps still exist in Windows 10. Here's how to quickly find them. read more Continue reading...

Windows 10's new Start Screen is completely customizable, but will take some time to give it some personal organization. read more Continue reading...

Pen users can now use these tools as a "first class input method" on Windows 10 based systems using the new Remote Desktop Universal Windows Platform app. read more Continue reading...

I found this interesting post over on this forum on how to run MSN Gaming Zone. That's the Internet games,Internet Reversi, Internet Hearts and other games that comes with Windows XP on Windows 7. Source:Last post on the thread...

More and more of our users are storing their files in more and more places. Whether that’s in cloud locations like OneDrive and Dropbox at home, or across network shares, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint at work, the problems introduced are the same – it gets harder to access those files...

After installing Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10122 in a clean upgrade from build 10074 I was finally able to use Tablet Mode on a small screened device, the HP Stream 7, and this is about that experience. read more Continue reading...

Yeah so as the title says just upgraded to 8.1 Pro, Really happy with it so far ... Defiantly an improvement over Win7, Feels snappier, Wasn't a fan of the missing start button so a bought a program called Start8 its an amazing little tool that gives you a windows 7 style starts button so now i...

The Aero Flip 2D does not work anymore although the Flip 3D does . When I press Alt+Tab I only see the classic list of active tasks: And I cannot use the directional keys to select a task. Facts about the problem: Ø Only one user account is affected. Ø The Desktop Composition is...

Hi As everyone here probably knows I had issues with sound when I updated to Windows 8.1. Recently I've been running Windows 10 Technical Preview and my sound works fine. That is until I added Windows 8.1 Media Center to it. When I did that my sound problems returned just as they were before...

Hey everyone, Something strange has happened recently. I right clicked on my desktop to create a new folder, and got the following message: This is followed by a message stating that Windows Explorer has stopped working, Windows Explorer restarting, and a seeming return to normalcy. I was...

Press the Windows key+ R keys simultaneously to open the Run dialog box. Type control userpasswords2 in the run prompt and press Enter key. Click on your Microsoft account, uncheck the “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box”. Do the instructions and you are done. OK...